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  • Essay / Warfare Analysis - 1363

    The Native Americans who purchased or used the muskets were more skilled at shooting than the settlers, as the Native Americans were raised in their daily lives to hunt. The Native Americans wanted to obtain the firearms by trading with French and Dutch traders by exchanging beaver fur and other natural resources sought by the French and Dutch. The settlers saw that Native American fighting was different from traditional open field battles. The settlers evolved in the way of fighting the Indians more effectively when they experienced some conflicts with certain Native Americans. Native Americans do not use "destructive" or "barbaric" tactics of using fire, torturing and dominating their enemies like what the colonists know how to do seeing how the British Royal Army did in its military history of imperial wars. Native American warfare tactics are a natural evolution. Over the next few years, in 1965, King Philip's War took place as the settlers saw how the Native Americans fought when their war turned into a "scorched earth" tactic. Special fire arrows with rags, torches, sieges with flammable materials, and burning every house the Indians saw were tactics that the Native Americans had not learned before. Native Americans who opposed the settlers ambushed them by luring them into the forest using lures. Settlers allied with other Native Americans gave them the ability to avoid ambushes and track down their enemies. Settlers are valued for having acquired certain reconnaissance skills and for Native American allies to alert and defend their villages against Native American attackers. Settlers who went into the forests to hunt down enemies without the help of Native American allies would fail to find their enemies or